HeyItsMatt

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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
The state is saying Visa is committing the crime. The states media cheerleaders are squawking it to all that will listen. If Visa loses, payment processors have little choice but to remove processing from sites that allow user generated con
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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
Nothing to do with transaction risk. Congress and the executive branch have a myriad of ways to harm a large business if they don't get what they want. Visa's issues with religious fundamentalists started in the Tipper Gore days.
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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
Pantographs and catenary wires long ago solved the energy supply problem for heavy transport. They are 99% efficient and cheap to build. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3P_S7pL7Yg Diesel and hydrogen is only needed on extr
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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
Google+ and circles were a good idea and should have been given a team with a lot of free rein and left to grow organically. Google+ died because it was forced on everyone that had a Google and a Youtube account by psychopathic managers to
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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
To replace Pichai the two largest Google shareholders would have to give a shit about the direction of the company. But they've been absent for longer than Pichai has been CEO.
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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
I can't surface them at all for non-programming sites. Occasionally automotive, but it's still mostly AI generated made for adsense junk. I can use site: filters on sites I know about, but I can't find anything on a page I do
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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
Google and Bing (and hence DDG etc) are no longer a search engines, they're "information the powers that be permit you to have" engines. Forums, blogs, and small independent websites have disappeared from indexes. Large walle
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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
Speak for yourself.
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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
The US is threatened by the rise of both China and India. India seems to be quite capable of sabotaging itself however.
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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
Yeah, there's a minimum volume required to store an electric charge and memory has reached it. Global demand is collapsing due to the Great NotARecession, whatever price we reach by Christmas will be the lowest planar DRAM ever gets. S
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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
From a much better Anandtech article: 32% increase in layers, 40% increase in die area. https://www.anandtech.com/show/17509/microns-232-layer-nand-... A bunch of the cost is test and packaging which is constant s
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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
I'd love it if Meetup had a threaded discussion board with a way to pin photos and video. All my social networks would use it. That's actually what Google+ was with circles before the morons in charge forcibly bundled it into Yout
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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
You laugh, but there are still franchisee owned stores selling McPizza and *the horror, the horror* McSalads.
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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
Facebook doesn't respect it's users, it's staff, or it's retail investors. As the companies stock is currently structured it exists as Mark Zuckerberg's personal plaything and no one can get rid of him until he runs
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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
Amazon wrote off it's Rivian investment. Cashflow positive.
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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
This is the only time that it is correct for a journalist to use the word "decimate".
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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
COGS is >70% of that number. Retailers typically subtract it before calculating gross margins.
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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
Google has a cash cow and isn't hungry. Their employees can half-arse the rest of their business and still be confident they'll get paid at the end of the week. Amazon's retail arm bled when AWS was started, and still bleeds.
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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
Netflix has always been in trouble and has never been cashflow positive once they started making content. Problem is now we're in a recession and the free money has run out. Swimming naked when the tide goes out and all that...
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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
Google has lacked product leadership since Sergey Brin and Larry Page left. Since the early-2010's Google has suffered enormous management bloat and exclusively taken a quarterly profit focus. Always wondered why Larry and Sergey ran f
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by HeyItsMatt 4y ago
Walter Burley Griffin designed Canberra with space allotted for highly efficient tramways that still haven't been built. The guy has been dead for nearly one hundred years and the city still hasn't assigned a replacement urban pla